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The evening world., 1887-10-28
HANDRILLs ARE IN SEASON.
they win screw the streets Unsn ,Afssr -
Holidays.

they win Screw the Streets Unsil Afssr -
In the language Of the deep sec mariner,
the handful season 10 close aboard on the
weather bow. From now on until the oloes
of the holidays the bill distributor will be Q
conspicuous although unobtrusive feature Of
crowded city streets. The handful printer
will grow rich and fat, and the waste-paper
dealer and the rag picker will do q thriving
trade. The sidewalks and cutters will be
strewn. thick with sixteenth sheets 90 the
gully in the maple woods 10 strewn WI
leaves after an October storm.
Handful advertising Is costly. The cheap
est kind of sixteenths cannot be had lower
than $1.50 per thousand. Good printing ON
machine finished book paper will bring the
handful up to $3 q thousand. BY the aver
age printers way of counting o thousand
handbills number only e60 at the most. to say
nothing Of those spoiled in making ready tho
printing press and in the work of printing.
A wide-awake bill distributor will give
away $50 worth of handbills in O day. A
dishonest man will dispose of the anne num-
Der of bills in O way known only to himself.
Hereafter, I shall do all my advertising
in the newspapers" said q retail merchant
yesterday. Heretofore I have distributed
hundreds Of dollars worth of handbills and
circulars in the streets every holiday season.
II pays, of course, because q certain number
of people out of the many who take the bills,
read them and come to my store. I have
come to the conclusion, however, that the
same amount Of money put into Newspaper
advertising will do me twice as much good"
The evening world., 1887-10-28
Go 70 the Cooper Union Rally tonight.
LLHALLowE'EN FRoLlcKlNcs-ocT.sI.

The informal evening usually begins with
allowing the men who like water to I" boil"
for apples in o washtub.
The last thing the girls are supposed to do
is to go to some dark room with q candle and
brush their hair before q mirror and watch
for the dear ones face.
Apples are prophets on All Halloween
more than other ut any time, and their skins
are thrown over the shoulder and their seeds
are counted then in o i ever-failing curiosity.
Hang some apples by long strings in an
open door, one apple for each young man,
and then tell them that the one who eats his
first, his hands behind him all the while, shall
marry first.
The adventurous man and maiden may
melt O bar Of solder bit by bit in an iron
spoon, and drop it q little at q time into q
tumbler of cold water. Babies, collins, bridal
wreaths and rings are expected to show them
selves in due order.
Whatever the weather, there must perforce
be an open fire. Each girl must take one
chestnut for herself and another For the man
she dreams OF but does not know, and lay
them before the fire. Her future is sure to
snappy, placid or lonely Just as these two
mates meet their fate.
The last thing the girls usually do is to cut
out each q paper ladder and set It at the foot
of her bed that the spirit lover may run up
and peep at her over the f~oot-board. then to
wrong side out over q chair and then go to
bed backwards.
When 1t comes the young mems turn, they
are blindfolded and led up one by one TO
stick their fingers in one OF three bowls. II
q man sticks his finger in the bowl which is
the one which holds clear water, he will
marry q maid. II he chances on the last, the
one which is filled with dirty water, alas
the shout arises "A widowI"
The evening world., 1887-10-28
/" Dickey . Shirt Front. a. n Barsain.

"Dickey " Shirt Fronts at n Bargain.
The wholesale dealers in mems furnishings lately
tried to revive the old-time custom Of wearing
''dickeys." They made up large quantities Of the
ancient form Of stiniy starched. shield shaped
shirt fronts, with standing collars and colored
tape ties attached. Then they sprang samples on
all and sundry dealers In mems apparel and tried
tended to give an air of sweldom to the
humblest and busiest flannel shirt, and to
retail at 80 cents apiece. The wise and ny young
men Of this town, however, wouldn't have any
thing to do with them, and they became . drug on
the market. Yesterday the biggest arm dealing In
at q. 80 q dozen; formerly u. 80. The chances are
that big Western dealers who send stun to the
faraway frontier win buy them, and that within o
couple Of months starched dickeys over nannel or
buckskin shirts will be the correct thing for full
dress wear ut cowboy receptions.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
ported from Baracao.

ported from Baracao.
One firm now employs three steamships
which ply between New York and Jamaica,
and are used solely for the importation of
fruit, chiefly bananas. These steamers were
build expressly for this business, and are
constructed with countless ventilators and
numerous movable decks. The fruit is
packed in a rather peculiar way. The
punches are stood on end, and two layers
are thus spread over the bottom Of the YES.
sells hold, when q movable deck Ia fitted
over them; Then two more layers OF the
fruit are laid down, and 80 on until the cargo
Is complete. A vessel carries from 5000 to
IL, 900 punches per trip.
The middlemen in the banana business
purchase their stock at the wharyes as soon
as the vessel begins TO unload. They buy
from 100 to 1900 punches at q time and cart
them Immediately to the cellars, where they
are ripened. The banana reaches this
country in an extremely green condition.
hung on hooks suspended in rows along the
ceiling. In the center OF the cellar is o gas
or oil stove, which Is generally 80 regulated
as to preserve q temperature of 60 or 70
degrees Fahrenheit. Here the fruit ripens
gradually until it is ready for the retailers,
Sometimes, however, when the demand is
large for the ripened food the cellar Is heated
to rs degrees, and sometimes even 80 degrees,
but ut this temperature the banana is apt to
4" cook" rs il il called, and lose its flavor.
IL hhb tho Va kAo SAt 40
varied as the condition of the fruit demands.
II the fruit is chilled, q high temperature Is
imperative.
Some little time ago ~ice-boxes were intro
duced to the ripening rooms. In the top of
the box Is q large apartment into which the
ice Is put, while underneath long dripping
pans of galvanized iron are placed. The
heat from the gas stove converted the ice
into water, which slowly runs down into the
pans below. There IL quickly evaporates
and reaches the top of the room where the
bananas are hung. This addition was at first
regarded as O great improvement, for II
ripened the fruit evenly and brought out a
golden color on the skin but II was found
that when ripened in this manner the fruit
was extremely delicate, and that IL spoiled
almost immediately when exposed to an open
atmosphere. "a.
The banana must be nursed Oh carefully as
O child, Any sudden change of temperature
to produce o bad effect. The fruit may be
ripened In twenty -four hours from the time
Of its arrival, but IL is much better II alonger
time is AIKEN.
In the transportation Of this fruit very
great care 10 used. TIT punches are first
carefully embodied in paper bags and then
packed In patent heated cars. These cars
contain oil stoves, and are fitted with patent
ventilators. which preserve an even tsmpera-
ture about the fruit. The demand for ba.
nanas Is largest from about April 10 to July 1.
They are the most expensive, during the last
two weeks Of April At this time OF year the
middle man has TO pay from % to $2.87 pei
bunch for the best of the yellow bananas
and from 90 cents TO $3.50 for the red ones
The people must pay accordingly.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

nave myself seen the dispatches OF our Con-
sui at Gibraltar. and can vouch for their sub
stantial correctness. I have often wondered
why they have never been published, but
Tor some reason, betteR known to the de-
partment than to me-, they have been left
to be forgotten among the d~ust-covered ar
chives.
1 therefore now present the facts for what
they are worth. I have no theory to pro-
pound. I am not aware that I possess the
gift of " second sight" I certainly do not
" believe In ghosts" I am not q Spiritualist,
mot o T~heosophist, but-in spite of myself
still q sceptic. I can only hope that the
reader "a deeper student of the occult
sciences than I-may devise som satisfactory
explanation of the power that produced the
the Emily Brand.
l was at Nice, where I had been sent q
month earlier. 0 tardy and restless oonva-
The evening world., 1887-10-28

somewhat mortified air, while the young
dude, who buys a gold eye-glass, reluctantly
confesses that he wants only plain glass. A
very pretty young lady buys eyeglasses for q
who ht''i Is evidently ads b %,siG,s-'ss her lffS ryi
pair, processes greater ignorance as to
eye,glasses in general and the wearing
OF them than is necessary; She is more
that are best suited to her eyes. and consults
the mirror and the patient clerk many times
before the glasses are adjusted on her nose at
the most Becoming angle. The idea of a hook
to hang them on, or q black silk cord-"out-
are abhorrent to her, and she will have
nom of them.
The old lady is from the country, and hav-
ing lost her glasses she comes for another
dead, and living. ancestors, the state Of her
own health, and the numberless sorrows she
has been afflicted with. For persons with
troublesome noses, noses on which 1t Is diff
cult to fit glasses, there is the adjustable
nIose-piece," which will fit almost any nose /;
but there are noses that absolutely refuse to
be fitted to any pair Of eyeglasses. and can
only wear specs" For persons whose eye
lashes. are very long and touch the glasses,
there is the of set n%ose-piece,", which fits
glasses beyond the reach of the eye-lashes.
Lorgnettes having come into fashion, o
great many are sold to ladies of all ages, both
in carved tortoise shell and rubber. The
latter are far less expensive than the former.
The effect Is about the same. Many of these
have only plain glass, and others glasses that
magnify q little. the idea of the purchaser
being that the latter will take the place Of
an opera-glass. As gold lorgnettes are very
much more expensive than the tortoise shell,
there is far less demand for them. They are
generally of a different style, being made
with shorter handles, and are, therefore, not
30 convenient to use.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
HE srOPpErH ONE OF THREE.
An Ancient Mariners Beat Areusss Milton
III. 70 Rage.

An Ancient Mariners Beat Areuses Milton
III. 20 Rage.
The crowded sidewalk was full a. full
could be with shoppers. New York's beauty
parade never looked drawer, and the delighted
club-men who were taking their daily after
breakfast walk abroad at 2. 80 in the afternoon
were charmed to see many bright, happy
faces in Union Square.
II was an ancient mariner, and he stoppeth
one Of three. The way he did il was what
caused q row and superinduced q panic that
made the corner of Broadway and Eighteenth
street look like o Kaleidoscope for q while.
The ancient mariner was tall and lean and
bent. The wind was free from the southeast
downtown it burbled through his white locks
and futtering whiskers.. His glittering eye
wouldn't have stopped anybody, because
yesterday wasn't it's glittering day; but he
wore a fierce, fiery red coat that would have
stopped an express train. Slowly and
solemnly he progressed, his face bent towards
the pavement, each hand mechanically deal
ing forth cards which advised people to go to
Blanks for their winter wraps.
The one of three who was stopped
answered to the name of Milton III. He was
a dark red Irish setter. His companions
were another setter and a meek man. All
three were unshackled and unmuzzled.
When Milton III. saw the red coat, he sprang
The old man made q wild misdeal of all his
cards at once and tried to climb the nearest
telegraph pole. He nearly upset a dozen
pretty shoppers as he went, but that did II,
growled and barked all the more, and the
meek man tried to quiet the racket. The
more he tried. the wilder it grew. Such a
mass of flying color hadn't been seen even on
Broadway for many a day. The last that was
seen of the old gentleman with the red coat,
he looked like the burning of Babylon, and
the Irish setter looked like a volunteer fire
department going to put him out.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
RAVE Is the difficult
a., -l..L l.-....z-

RAVE is the difficult
ty which has arisen be-
tween Col. r. E. J.
Miles. Of the Bijou
Opera House, and the
great tank at The
Academy of Music.
Col. Miles intends
using q tank in his
Of Leo
nard Growers Lost
in New York." at the
Holiday Street Thea
tire, Baltimore, and
the big tank OF the
Academy of Music
claims that If this Is
done its patent will
The evening world., 1887-10-28
Tho HomeIie.t Man on Earth.

The editor Of a paper in Dubuque, Iowa. once
handsome, was q little over SIX months ago
changed into probably the homeliest man on earth.
This terrible change was due to a sudden attack
Of paralysis Of the muscles Of one side of the face,
following prolonged neuralgia. After electricity
and the doctors had failed he tried d.. BUCkLAND's
ESSENCE OF SCOTCH OATS. and in thirty days was
perfectly cured and lost the unenviable notoriety
az being the homeliest man ON earth. -
The evening world., 1887-10-28

several days past, and as the season q ~inclement weather
pare In time to protect their health BY properly CLOTHING
themselves. The best and cheapest goods for men,
AND LABOR C%LoTHIsa APPROPRIATIONS, FIVE hundred and
ovsrcoats at siis made OF chinchiiia ciotS. lined WIN
farmer's satin. and elegantly made and trimmed. This
city. Their elo all .woollchsvot suifs arc Of the latsst
s, = . amRpss.as s' s StSs,, ,s,g no % sr snd vSry nandssI:s
men and boys equally. as cheap. At the .OAFrrAL AND
one t65D 9Th ave., between a7th and 3sth sts.. New
York City,
The evening world., 1887-10-28
A Good Appetizer.

'".You seem to be hungry tonight, old man."
said . gentlemen 70. . friend who was seated In
bill q fare.
81 wish / could eat q dinner like that,' went on
the first speaker. envously. "What do you take.
q N better sppetizer than cocktails"
"Wel, what II It ="
"Riksr's Calisaya Tonic.
can 81 Z Almost srywhsrs for rs cents. Big
"By Joys! III get one to- might.
Cad! "a give ssventy-hve dollars to tackle my feed
The evening world., 1887-10-28
Go to the Cooper Union Rally tonight.
A Pihful Plight.

A Pihful Plight.
Iron the Boston Co1risr,1
~Tapley-Coming down to the club tonight, Chuz-
zlewit?
Chuzzlewit-Can't, my boy. Wife's sick,
T.-Indeedi Anything serious7
C.-Not exactly. 1t ia q throat trouble. but 1t ia
neither painful nor dangerous. She Ia suffering
terribly, nevertheless,
T.-Why, how's THAR
THE doctor has forbidden her to talk.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
THINGS IN THE MIMIC WORLD.
THH TROUBLE BETWEEN COL. NILES AND
THE ACCIDENTS BIG TANK.

Plays In which Tanks Acted Lsus Ase-Pre-
pairing for Mary Anderson's Teur-The
Production OF "Editha's Burslar" In
London Unauthorized" Fascination " In
New Y~ork-Drcsses for /" The Wife,
The evening world., 1887-10-28

I'VE afterwards opened the door and discovered
that IL led into the between-decks space, where we
found amidships, adjoining the cabin, the ship's
during our original search Of the vessel. On either
side OF this store-room were arranged Q numnAf or
casks OF alcohol, which composed the cargo. There
ner where any one could have been concealed.
Our original entrance TO this part OF the brigantine
had been through the main hatch nom ths oeek
above,
The evening world., 1887-10-28
RIPENTNa BANANAS POR MARKET.
The Fruit Brought Green 20 New York and
Heated In Close Rooms.
.ERYwHEREon s

E. Il q mi
hear The CRY
" Bananas, all ripe ~
F o people know
they come from,
who imports them, how
are ripened and
put upon the market.
The yellow variety, the
kind most extensively
imported, is brought
principally from ia
maica, although Port
Limon and Aspinwall,
export many
thousands Of punches
yearly. The red va
riety Is wholly i'm
The evening world., 1887-10-28
Strange Story Of the Emily Brand.
BIZ ANDREW HussHY ALLEN.

HARDLY suppose
that any n will be-
lieve this story. In
deed, I would hesitate
to tell it were it not
that its principal
events are to be found
recorded in the CORE
s~pondence of the De-
partment of State at
Washington, and in
the official reports of
the Vice = Admiralty
Court at Gibraltar,
both of which sources
OF verifcation are, !
have no doubt, access
ible to the reader. I
The evening world., 1887-10-28
MOI What Was Meant.

IFSom the Nsp Orleans PieayuHs.l
An abbreviated word frequently puts q new
meaning where 1t Is not intended. A glove dealer
has q sign up which says "a but. kids" The kid
that cannot butt more than six times L. not strong.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

UGH surprise is mani
Tested at the ridicu.
lousy low standard in
the all-round cham
p%ionships of the Staten
Island Athletic Club,
which are to be held
on Election Day, COM
mencing at II A. NJ.
Almost anybody ought
to qualify at these con-
tests. The standard
for 56-pound weight
throwing is 10 feet.
The New York Ath-
letic Clubs standard
ut its games the 25th of
last June was IA feet
The evening world., 1887-10-28
No Loss without Some Gain.

IFFUW Ns AuHSuS CHV SUuFHuF.I
az see you have Q new barn, Mr.. Thrifty"
"That amt q barn; that's o wood-house."
"a wood-housef ?"
eyes, and It's fun OF wood, too. WHAT'S the
use OF paying tax bills to have your street paved
with cedar blocks on q cypress plank foundation,
II you can't make something out of TT"
The evening world., 1887-10-28
or Course He was IN Love.

tFSom Judged
"What makes you think MI. Merritt Ia In love
with me 2" asked Cora.
because, ~ replied her mother, she asked
your little brother II 1t was true that you would
have ten thousand on the day Of your marriage
The evening world., 1887-10-28
SPORTS OF FIELD AND RING.
LOW STANDARDS AT THE STATEN ISLAND
CHAMPIONSHIP CANES.

Tue National Amateur Skating A~ssociatieu-
More Rowins Handicaps wanted-Ceium-
bias Genes This A~ftcrnoon-The BENEFIT
90 Al. Lambert's w~idow-e2,5OO Worth
or Medals to be Given to Winners To-piaht.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
In n Maine Car.

Of US, Tom. See what he's reading, and when the
train-boy comes in buy the book for me. It's sure
to be interesting and instructive.
Mr.. B~railer-Qooking over the Deacon's shout.
der)-LarryD onahue's - Bar-keepers Guide -
The evening world., 1887-10-28

EN- minutes in an OPP
tician's shop shows
weak side Of hu-
man nature. Those
who need eyeglasses
those who do not
come to buy. An
aged man, leaning on
his servant, buys q
suited only to
eyes, with a
The evening world., 1887-10-28

Coai.
tFfoM Puok.l
We MT care how high coal In this winter. We
don't even care II 1t Is Lehigh. But we hope 1t
may be 30 high that the railroad companies will
not be able 70 heat the cars with II.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

Tomorrow Is the last day Of Repatriation.
Secure your cote.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

Tomorrow h The last day Of Repatriation.
Secure your cote.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
IN AN OPTICIANS SHOP.

How Some Persons Act when They G.. tn
Bpy E~ye-Gissses.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

Tomorrow Is the last day Of Registration,
Secure your cote.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

Tomorrow is the last day Of Repatriation
Secure your vote.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

Tomorrow Is the last day Of Repatriation
Secure your cote.
The evening world., 1887-10-28

Iron tie Philadslphta Nsrs.1
Magistrate-I'm afraid I will have to commit
You 40 o nuisance.
Prisoner-But 1t is against the law to commit o
nuisance.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
Had Him There,

Go to tie Cooper Union Rally tonight.
Wichita eagle., 1887-10-05
Swedish Women at Homs.

Swedish women are, in their own country,
models OF neatness. The private house at
which Mir. Lancaster and myself had pro-
cured board was presided over by widow
lady named Ritzen, and the scrupulous
cleanliness of the apartments we occupied
was indeed marvellous. There were no car
pets on the floor, but the latter were always
kept beautifully clean, being daily and l
might add almost hourly scrubbed by ou
hostess and her Datty little maid servant.
Frida.
There are many pretty faces to be met
with IN Sweden, although the beauty of q
great many young girls is spoiled by defec-
tive teeth, due, was informed, to their pas
sion for sweetmeats. / was more than sur
pTised to find among people so noted for
their religious convictions crimes, that in our
country would inevitably send the offender
70 the peRitentlery, were there almost wholly
disregarded. and, in fact, looked upon as being
nothing uncommon The clergymen in
Sweden appear to exercise wonderful control
over their charges. In fact, no Italian priest
could be more rigid in his surveillance of the
morals of his people, and yet among the
peasantry was assured that not one in ten
of the men ever dream of marrying a woman
until they have both lived together for a Pc
ROD varying from one month to a year; still
the ministers of the gospel strive hard to in
struct these people in the evil of their WAYS,
and annually znvolngs are hold 20, .l,c pur-
pose Sr examining the peasants in reading
snu the catechism of their religion. Boston
Commercial Bulletin.
Wichita eagle., 1887-10-05
Tribulations of an inventor.

The way of inventors without means or
supporters is not to be envied Nothing can
be done with an invention in the present day
unless the aspiring genius who secures q
patent also engages the attention Of men with
money. Great corporations have to be ap-
pi he'd, and as they are not, as a rule, dis
posed to espouse the cause of every plausible
device, the man with q patent must demon
strate to the satisfaction of managers that
his ideas will stand the brunt of actual SER
vice after emerging from the experimental
stage. The moral of this is that an inventor.
to be successful, must have sufficient ability
to organize strong company composed Of
men whose names are a guarantee, and then
one corporation will protect the other This
would have assured the adoption Of the Terry
cable system in this city. Without big
company behind the patent to take care Of 1t,
eastern capitalists who invested in the bonds
issued on the new cable system refused to
look at it. and simply said: IF you want our
money you must take system that has been
tried to our satisfaction We want no ex-
periments involving our millions 7-Globs
Democrat
Wichita eagle., 1887-10-05
A Bull Fight i'm Madrid.

BY this time 1 thought knew enough
about bull fights, and / left the king and
queen and their court to behold the other
three combats without me- and went away
to walk on the prado and reflect. Ny sym
pathies were all with the bulls They were
the only creatures who had no least show of
fair play. They alone were doomed with alb
solute certainty from the start Even the
horses might escape; and at worst their tor
tS.o-,,.s but for moment Tho men were
only in just enough danger TO make the
thing exciting, and there were 90 chances ous
Of 100 that they would escape scathless; but
the bull, let him bear himself never 50
bravely, was to be made an end of--Louise
Chandler Moulton in The Cosmopolitan
Wichita eagle., 1887-10-05
Death Rate Among Children.

The following facts are suggestive: Full
one-third of the patients of the general prac-
titioner are children. OF all children born
about one in five dies within the first year,
and one in three by the end of the fifth year.
In New York about one-haif die in five years.
It is with little children as with extreme old
age, they are very liable % be sick, and their
sickness to prove fatal OF those who die
within the e year 20 per cent. die of diges-
tive troubles, and about 10 per cent. die Of
respiratory affections. During this second
year this order is reversed, about SO per cent
dying of respiratory and only per cent Of
diseases of the bowels,-Philadelph Times